Poland Quotes · Page 4

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

— Steven Wright

“It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.”

— Rhonda Fink-Whitman

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

— Simon Wiesenthal

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

— Frans Timmermans

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

— Jack Antonoff

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

— Yuri Milner

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest…

— Bronislaw Geremek

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age…

— Morris Gleitzman

I'm a big supporter of the military simply because I'm the daughter of a Polish immigrant who fled Europe during World War…

— Cindy Morgan

In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Being part of the E.U. in Poland means that for the first time in a millennium, nobody disputes Poland's borders, and it…

— Frans Timmermans

Poland has resumed its place as a leading nation of a Europe that is strong, whole, and free.A strong Poland is a…

— Donald Trump

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a…

— Rene Cassin

It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis…

— Andrzej Duda

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they…

— Nigel Dennis

Some in the West apparently believe that Poland no longer has its own interests, and that it is all too willing to…

— Lech Kaczynski

President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our…

— Mitt Romney

Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and…

— Lech Kaczynski

But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Polak, jak dać mu wolność, to wszystkich przeskoczy. Polak, jak musi czekać, to wpada w złość. Polak, jak myśli, to zawsze senny.…

— Tadeusz Konwicki

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish…

— Lech Walesa

For Germany, Poland is now a more important trade partner than Russia. With respect to history, our peoples will require more time…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

I grew up at the time of Social Realism in Poland, when everyone was supposed to be 'writing for the workers.' But…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It was an away game, I think in Poland. I ate some chicken and had really bad salmonella.

— Andre Schurrle

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

— Norman Braman

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

— Andrzej Duda

I have found my perfect place on earth in Poland, in Luslawice, near Krakow.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved…

— Bryce Dessner

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

— Woody Allen

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

— Ivan Krastev

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

I really enjoyed the 1986 World Cup. My dad woke me up and let me watch England vs Poland. Gary Lineker was…

— Tim Key

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

— Marek Hlasko

“In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars ...”

— Sylvia Plath

Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.

— Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

— Nancy Willard

Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Having grown up in Poland, it is a dream come true for me to be playing every week in the Premier League…

— Lukasz Fabianski